Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy – Release

September 27, 2009

Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy is available in streaming and for download, starting from TODAY.
In a few days other distribution channels will be shared, so that everybody will be able to download the file from different channels.

The official subtitles, in several languages, are already available.

Philanthropy has been a challenge nearly impossible to complete, started three years ago. We didn’t imagine, then, all the troubles we would have been into and all the obduracy that we would need to complete the project.
By the way, we didn’t know, how much support we were going to find, how many friends we were going to meet, how many passionate and generous people were going to help us.

The release of “Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy” make an end of the first life history of Hive Division. The team, nearly a family now, is going to take some time to decide what’s happening next.
We do not really know when we’re going to produce the two sequels of Philanthropy (whose script was written together with “The Overnight Nation” in 2006).

This will depend on many factors: the reaction of our public, the future of professional Hive Division, who is looking for financial partners to realize our next projects and partners to become a real Production Studio, and, for sure, Konami’s reaction to the project.

We feel and hope that one day Snake, Elizabeth, and Pierre will complete their journey.

We are deeply grateful to all those who have been following the project, even during its “mysterious” phases when we were working so hard that we couldn’t update you as we would have liked to.

We happily put this movie in the hands of the Internet, the “primeval soup” in which our project was born and raised, to which we owe so much and which we hope to have provided with something meaningful.

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Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy – Premiere

September 18, 2009

Metal Gear Solid PHILANTHROPY Premiere

Hive Division will held two public screenings of “Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy”, before the relase date.


September, Friday 25th – Milan Sold Out!

Apollo Cinema

Galleria De Cristoforis, 2

Meeting and reservation collection 5.30 p.m.

Screening 6.00 p.m.


September, Saturday 26th – Silea (Treviso) Sold Out!

Cinecity

Via del Porto, 1

Meeting and reservation collection 2.30 p.m.

Screening 3.00 p.m.

The entrance is FREE but we need you to confirm us your presence to be sure that you have a seat. Please send an e-mail to:


info@mgs-philanthropy.net


filling in the “Object” field with “MILANO” or “TREVISO” and giving us your name and the names of anyone coming with you.

Reservation are valid until 15 MINUTES before the screening.

The movie will be downloadable for free from the Internet starting from September, 27th.

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Hive Reunion

September 11, 2009

After three years of hard work, Hive Division had a reunion to finally watch the whole MGS: Philanthropy movie on the silver screen.
At the end of the 70-minute long projection, a chapter of our personal history and of our lives has been definitely closed, leaving a strange mix of joy and melancholy behind.
We don’t know what the future deserves to our band of brothers, but what we do know is that… this time, we did it!

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OST Update N.3

September 3, 2009

Here’s the track of this week: “Will There Be An End”, the ending track of the movie sang by Aoife Ferry.

Will There Be an End

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Thanks again for this great piece of music for our project!

HIVE DIVISION AT CIRCUITO OFF

Yesterday workshop has been our first official conference about the movie. Thanks to all those who came and attended, to all the support and interest that you showed us! It was really fun to share our experiences, difficulties, solutions and so on with people interested in our workflow and, in general, in our no-budget and lot-of-fun adventure!

We will soon post more photos (and maybe videos, too!) of the conference.

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OST Update N.2 and Venice Off Teaser

August 27, 2009

Here‘s the second track composed by Daniel James, called “Praetorian Battle”.

Praetorian Battle

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We also wanto to remind you the Hive Division special event at Venice Off with this short Teaser.


If you would like to attend, please register here so to avoid the queue at the entrance.

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OST Update N.1

August 13, 2009

Here’s the first of the three tracks composed by Daniel James that will be released starting from now, weekly, until September, 3.
This track (download here) is called “Mission Briefing”

Mission Briefing

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Hive Division at Venice Off – OST Sneak Peek

August 12, 2009

San Servolo Island, Venice

On Wednesday, September 2, at 2.30 pm, Hive Division will hold a workshop on MGSP realization, as opening event of the 66th Venice Film Festival – Circuito Off.

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During the following weeks, Hive Division will release three tracks of the OST created by our friends from Hybrid Two.

Here’s a message from our composer, Daniel James.

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Release Date

July 11, 2009

Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy will be released on September, 27th. 2009.
This is the official announce!

Stay tuned for more and more news, from now on!

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Motion Capture Update

July 1, 2009

Hive Division is working on the last scene yet to be post-produced of the MGS Philanthropy project.
Here you can take a look at some photos taken during our last motion capture session!
The software we use, Spectrume Capture, has been totally conceived and realized by Alberto, our 3D Lead Artist.
I’m sure you can imagine which is the scene we’re working on right now…

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Once completed this sequence, the video post-production will be finished and it’ll be the turn of our friends from Hybrid Two that will take care of the audio editing and final audio mixing.

On July 11th the release date of Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy will be finally announced!

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Aoife Ferry sings for Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy

May 26, 2009

Aoife, singer of The Best Is Yet To Come (ending track of the original Metal Gear Solid videogame), has completed the recording of the ending track for the movie.
At the beginning of our “journey” we really could not expect that a top artist like Aoife would have joined our project, least of all the very same singer that millions of MGS fans remember with great emotion.

We consider this gift that Aoife made us a real privilege and we really want to thank her for her kindness and great artistic contribute.

The Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy post-production is in its final phase and the movie is meant to be completed by the end of June, 2009.
Stay in touch for further information about the first screening and the on-line web release!

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